cocker

/ˈkɒkə/

cocker means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.

cocker is pronounced /ˈkɒkə/.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. * The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).

name

A surname.
A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

noun

One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
One who hunts woodcocks.
A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.“You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.”
A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
A quiver.

verb

To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).“[…] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?”